August 16, 2020 “Open Fields” doctrine leads to government spying, arrests, and outrageous infringements of private property rights Hollingsworth’s residence was searched by U.S. government and state officials, dressed to the nines in assault gear, seeking to regain possession of a trail…
February 29, 2020 Endangered Species Act provides for killing wolves which pose any kind of threat Wolves for example are a vector of rabies, hydatid disease and other diseases that can cause “bodily harm” – even death. The whole measure…
April 14, 2019 North Dakota law strengthens private property rights but leaves loophole for hunters Skroch said the issue has been a hot one during the session, and she worries that landowners across the state are at a “flashpoint.”…
February 10, 2019 Speak your Mind: WOTUS comment period open “For the first time, we are clearly defining the difference between federally protected waterways and state protected waterways. Our simpler and clearer definition would…
January 14, 2019 Conservation Easements and Land Trusts are subverting private property rights There have been encroachments on private property over the past one hundred plus years, but now we are seeing a steady army of those…
January 4, 2019 BLM uses Nature Conservancy deals to gobble up private lands As long as there is a LWCF, BLM will have the financial wherewithal to gobbling up rural land, in the West and elsewhere. The…
November 19, 2018 Conservation impossible without property rights Federal lands are, on average, in worse environmental condition than private lands and produce much less economic activity. That’s because management of federal lands,…
September 28, 2018 Endangered Species modernization measures advance in Congress The legislative package of nine bills addresses the shortcomings of the ESA by fixing the listing process, adding framework for a clear de-listing process,…
March 5, 2018 ‘Commenced conversion’ a regulatory conspiracy against American farmers This article is intended to provide an historical account of these actions and their impacts for the purpose of vindicating the many small and…
January 11, 2018 Flashback: Ammon Bundy explains video of BLM agents burning private ranches In this video, which was taken in the summer of 2015, less than two weeks after the Hammonds were sentenced to prison for ‘arson,’…
